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Quanta tua est probitas, quanta et praestantia linguae
Quamque tuum prisco diferat ingenium
Vidimus et nobis monstravit epistola quam tu
Misisti nuper nostro achademico.
5O quam foelices nimium, Cassandra, parentes
Natalique fuit grata Lucina tuo.
Illo nempe die non recordatus amorem
Phetontis cinxit purpura clara deum.
Riserunt faciles undis Nereides et quae
10Siqua colunt sacrum numina Castalium
Nam Lybiae tu sola vales mulcere pericla
Sola canum Scyllae vincere duritiem
Tollere sola tui poenas haec, Sysiphe, saxi
Posset, tantalea summere poma manu,
15Sola puellarum venetum tu gloria prolis,
Sola potes duris mentibus esse quies,
Peligni doctam sileat modo carta Corinnam
Cedat et Aurelii Cynthia culta modis.
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1 ad Cassandram Fidelem poetissam epigramma
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